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Welcome. In front of me is a Google Pixel 7 and today I'll show you how you can
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hard reset your phone through recovery mode. Now I will also add that this
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process removes screen locks as an example. So if you don't know one you can get rid of it this way though you also will get
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rid of everything else from your phone without being able to actually back it
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up assuming you don't know your screen lock. Now one more caveat on top of that
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is if you are logged into Google account this will make the device be FRP locked
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so throughout the setup process once the factory reset is finished you'll need to
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verify either the pattern or the Google account or not pattern but screen lock
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in general or Google account. You can use either one or the other. Now for me I
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have both things set up so Google account and pattern and by doing so my
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phone will become locked so I'm mentioning this because after the process is finished I'll make another video on how you can actually bypass
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this so if you're interested in doing so you can follow that video and get a
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visual guide on how you can do this. Now anyway moving to this one let's lock the
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device and you'll see that I do have a pattern set so I'll progress from the
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lock screen as though I don't know my pattern so let's go back to here pull
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down your notifications click on the power button and select power off. Once
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the phone turns off give it like five seconds before you start holding power key and volume down at the same time
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From there you should be booted into this mode boot mode and in here you will
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need to use volume keys to navigate through the visible options right here
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so press volume down twice and you should see recovery mode once you do
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confirm it with power key give it a second and you'll be stopped by this one
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and do it with no command so hold power key press volume up while holding power
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key and this will take you to recovery mode and in here just as before using
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volume keys you want to scroll down and select wipe data factory reset
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confirm with power key then select factory data reset confirm that again at
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the bottom you will see the data complete as a last entry meaning that
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the process is finished and also reboot system now at that point should be
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selected by default so press power key once again this will initiate a reboot
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and this will now continue the process of factory resetting your phone so it
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might take it a little bit longer to boot back up don't worry that's completely normal so once the process is actually finished we should be
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presented with Android setup screen so I'll be back once that is visible Oh
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and as you can see it's already finished now like I mentioned before for me the
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device will be locked and you can see it right here I do have this lock icon so
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I'll be doing a next video on how you can bypass this so with that being said
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